The Day of Change

The recent seventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon remind us of how America’s way of life has been altered. September 11, 2001 was the first time since the War of 1812 that the United States mainland was attacked by a foreign enemy. It shut down all air travel in the United States, closed Wall Street, and put the United States Military on its highest alert. The threat of terrorism was of little concern to most American’s before September 11. A terrorist act was seen as possible but unlikely to happen on American soil. Today, seven years later, there are government agencies devoted to stopping terrorism, people wait in line for hours at airport security lines, and people now believe that a terrorist attack can happen to them.